The Blog Directory is Finally Here :)

Whelp guys, after 9 years of dreaming about this thing, 5 years of thinking I should probably do something about it, and then 3 months of actually *taking action* on it, I’m proud to announce that our industry’s very first blog directory is now live.

You can check it out here :) –>

We started only adding up the expected stuff like blogger name, website, category, and popular social channels, but over the months we kept adding more and more to it, and eventually we came out with a full-blown database where you can not only find blogs much faster and easier, but can also drill down and find all sorts of other juicy demographics too.

Such as:

The sex of the blogger

The age of the blogger

Their race (!)

The financial stage they’re in (do they have dual income households? single income? retired?)

If they have kids or not

Their net worth!

The city/state/country of where they live

And most recently added, their main *profession*

Now not everyone was comfortable disclosing all of this info, and that’s of course fine (we asked everyone to to get the most accurate results) but out of the 680+ bloggers we are tracking, I’d say a good majority of them spilled all the beans :) And the data is so fascinating!!!

I put on my statistician hat for a few minutes the other day to get a quick lay of the land (and that’s all it literally took – a few minutes – because it’s all open and easily accessed!), and here were some of my findings:

56% of the bloggers are male (36% are female and 8% are teams)

49% of bloggers are in their 30s (21% are in their 20s, 17% in 40s and 8% in their 50s & 60s)

Of those who disclosed their race, 82% are white, 9% are Asian, 4% are African American, and 3% are Hispanic or Latin

37% of all bloggers have kids (of which 54% of households have dual incomes, and 46% single)

34% of all bloggers are DINKs (Dual Income No Kids) and 21% SINKs (Single Income No Kids)

4% of all bloggers tracked are RETIRED :)

23% of them (154) publicly disclose (ranging from -$532,304 to +$5,000,000)

We’re blogging from 6 of the 7 total continents

We span 20 different countries, including Romania, Guatemala, South Africa and Israel!

The most commonly held profession so far are those in IT, followed by Engineers – not as many financially-related jobs as you’d think?

And we have at least one blogger who is an opera singer, flight attendant, model, physicist, patent examiner, nuclear contractor, firefighter (2, actually!), librarian, and costume designer.

If you know any financial bloggers in Antarctica or any of the other 176 countries, please do :)

Here’s a screenshot of the home page:

We were about to launch this puppy after aggregating all that data, but then we thought – why not soup up all our older Best Blogs list and Net Worth Tracker, and even merge over our original PF Directory resources too? If we’re trying to make this a go-to place for anything financial online, why not smash it all together?

So we did.

And here are the direct links to some of these new pages (also found in the main nav bar):

NEW:List of those blogs once you’re bored with the main 680+ :)

And dozens of others…

We have a list a mile-long of other things we’re already working on adding to it (podcasts are next, as well as those blogs that have gone inactive and those that have died out so we can start compiling a solid archives), but figured it was finally time to stop building and get this thing out to the world. It does no good if no one knows it exists, right?

So please check it out, poke around, send me any feedback or requests/problems you find with it (I’m sure there’s a few), and then please please PLEASE pass it around!

I want this to help as many people in our community as possible, and the more friends sharing it the better shot of making that happen :)

I’ve already gotten some pretty cool notes about physical meet-ups now being formed in local cities, as well as other related bloggers connecting and never knowing each other existed, and it’s effects like this that remind me why I turned down that million dollar deal the other month. To think none of these projects would have seen the light of day had I just given up on my visions KILLS me!

We now have a of over 700 people chatting about money and entrepreneurship/ blogging, a charity and cool that’s done almost in only two months, a handful of new Original Series over on Rockstar Finance, and now this robust .

5 years of doing the same thing over and over again to now launching 4 major endeavors in the past 4 *months*. Pretty wild…

I’m exhausted as hell, but man do I feel alive :) And now it’s time to hit pause and focus all our energy on making these projects the best they can be for our community. Every single thing we’ve built was with *you guys* at the core of it, and I really hope it helps everyone out.

Thank you for always following along and encouraging me, and a special thanks to Steve Adcock from who single-handedly built the infrastructure for this Directory himself, and to my long-time friend, and philanthropy partner, for continuously pushing me to think bigger.

Click here to check out this new Directory: And click here to submit your own $$ blog:

Any questions/concerns/ideas, drop them in the comments below as always :)

******PS: If you end up doing anything cool with this data, please let me know!! I want to see all the interesting ways our community uses it!!

The Blog Directory is Finally Here :) was last modified: March 29th, 2017 by J. Money

oh man – this community completely changed my life all those years ago, so any time I can do something that adds value to it I’m going to try! I’ve never felt so much “at home” before as I do here with y’all. We’re so lucky to have stumbled across this world :)

I spent some time checking it out and was rather impressed (and a bit overwhelmed) by the magnitude of it. Awesome job J. Can’t wait to see the next big idea that you have brewing but just haven’t told us about yet, with people like you there’s always something else coming.

J, you are awesome!! I just checked out the directory and woohoo! I can sort by age! Not that I don’t think people of a different age are better/worse at advice, experiences, etc., but I find my goals & needs change with my age. It’s nice to have that option.

That’s *exactly* why we added it. So we can follow those around us experiencing certain life events, and then when we want even more wiser advice we go a decade or two older, and when we want to live vicariously though the younger ones we go decades earlier haha…

Thanks for pulling this together! I’ve already started using the directory to follow even *more* awesome blogs. It’s crazy how many FIRE bloggers there are out there; it makes me quite happy to see. ;)

Hmm… trying to figure out how the best way to portray that easily would be. For the net worth tracker you can tell by looking at any of their reports, and you can also select “real estate” or “investing” categories to see which blogs focus on those, but let me add this to the list to marinate on more. also – you can use the search bar to add dividend or other things too as we tagged a lot of blogs w/ other sub categories in the back end so that would find all of those, if that helps?

Woohoo! Right on. I’m excited to go through the list and check out all the blogs I didn’t even know existed! It’s great to have such a connected community of people with similar goals. Makes you feel not so alone. Thanks J$.

It just keeps getting better and better!!! Is there anyway too zoom in more on the map? (tech challenged here!) I want people to come eat icecream with me when they visit Glacier National Park. =) And we totally need more Montana bloggers!

Love it! The map is currently pretty basic at the moment, but we’ll prob be moving to a more robust/helpful one later. I just wanted something quick and dirty to show how many states/countries we’ve hit so far :)

RETIREEARLYLIFESTYLE.COM may want to check them out, fantastic frugal early retirees that travel all over the world, provide great tips on living internationally, managing $

This is awesome, I can’t begin to tell you how much your blog and others have changed my lifestyle and finances. I paid for 5 years of college–Masters and I consider the blogs as a free extension of my college–things that I should have learned but did not, and am forever thankful to you bloggers.

Love the stats too. I’ve hit 3 minority categories in the blogger community by being non-white, a woman and having a kid. I can’t wait to hit the biggest minority community of all – the 4% who are retired.

You helped me and I help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others and they help others…
…creatively inspiring saving and money making ideas.

This directory is extensive work J$! I especially liked the drop down feature. Very useful from a potential-economic-study point of view—If I had the time and discipline, lol. Maybe someday… In the meantime, back to work.

I love this. I’ve been wanting to find more PF blogs. I love the search options. Thanks for your hard work!! (I did find one misspelled link: chiefmomofficer.org) This directory will keep me busy for weeks, yay!

Fixed! Thank you!! hopefully overtime we find all the errors :) 99% of it all was user submitted info and just taking us quite a bit of time spot checking the original 600 blogs. All the new stuff should be a-okay!

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